remote: Unauthorized fatal: Authentication failed Bitbucket

Question

Ok, so Here's the scenario,

I had user1 logged in to my terminal for bitbucket account.

I had logged in like

$ git config --global user.name "user1"
$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

I was able to do commit and push perfectly.

Now I had another account on bitbucket with another email id for user2.

So I logged in like:

$ git config --global user.name "user2"
$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

But now when I am doing git push origin master I am getting the below error.

fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://[email protected]/user3/test.git/'

So I completely uninstalled git from my Ubuntu 14.04 and installed it again and logged in again. But even then getting the same issue.

How to avoid that error message?

Answer 1

The user.name and user.email local config have nothing to do with git repos hosting server authentication. It is just for committer/authorship on commits.

If you are using an https url, that means you need to use the BitBucket login and password.
If there is a BitBucket account 'user2', then its BitBucket password will be enough to pass the authentication (he/she will need to be a collaborator in user3 project in order to have the right to push though)

Make sure there is no special character in the password, or you would have to percent-encode it.